Interior Designers LOVE LuAnn Nigara’s Podcast - A Well-Designed Business
Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 82
It finally happened. After 82 blog posts showcasing the world’s best interior design podcasts, LuAnn Nigara has the entire thing all to herself. Which shouldn’t be a surprise…because interior designers love LuAnn’s A Well-Designed Business podcast…me included.
So, without any further ado, here’s LuAnn’s latest podcast episode….
A Well-Designed Business - LuAnn Nigara - AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home - 1 hr 25 min
A Well-Designed Business - AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home - 1 hr 25 min
In today’s episode, host LuAnn Nigara features Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason of AphroChic—a media and design brand celebrating African Diaspora cultures through their lifestyle magazine, podcast, and product lines.
Jeanine and Bryan are helping us relearn history as we dive into their latest book, AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home. This is essential reading, not only for designers, but for everyone, and the conversation we have around it is an important one so that we can be an active part of the change in this country.
Pick It Apart
[2:48] Janine talks about how the AphroChic blog was inspired by a gap she saw among home décor blogs at the time that left out people of color.
[15:20] Bryan explains that design is diverse by nature, and is a human thing to do so it happens in cultures all over the world, yet here in America, Eurocentric design is the only story that has been told for many years, forgetting the work of the rest of the world.
[27:27] LuAnn asks Bryan and Janine for some meaningful ways those in the interior design industry can be a part of positive change.
[40:37] LuAnn shares that she was called out as a racist, and shares that she later learned that systemic racism conditions you to not notice. This is the work that white people must do, learn the actual history so you see, you know the real truth.
[44:58] Janine and Bryan discuss how their new book is a history book and sociology book hidden within a design book.
LuAnn Nigara and Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays' Ah-Ha Moments
“Every aspect of what we've done has started with seeing a gap, seeing a space where we haven't seen that representation, or that cultural story represented, and then working to fill it in, in some way.” - Jeanine Hays
“Design is diverse by nature because the world is diverse by nature.” - Bryan Mason
“Racism is itself a, not a single, monolithic, stagnant thing. It is living. It adapts, it changes from one situation to another.” - Bryan Mason
“True change happens when you really do understand the reality of what happened in history.” - LuAnn Nigara
“Systemic racism doesn’t just condition the oppressed, it conditions the oppressor.” - Bryan Mason
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